This past week at a glance has been absolutely wonderful. I had a wonderful work week and a good weekend. I made bagels for the first time ever and they turned out amazing! Soon I will probably try and make the bagels again and document the process and share it here. I also made lasagna for the first time which was amazing! So many things to do and work on. It is very exciting! I need to get better at sitting down and publishing the things that I have written though. It seems I encounter and issue in this area wherein I will write a few things for my blog then forget to sit down and publish them to my blog. Partially this is because I do a lot of the writing for my blog on an iPad and I have yet to connect my blog control panel to my iPad. Which soon I will be rectifying by making sure I have my log in stuff on my iPad so I can actually add to my blog! Another thing I need to do is connect all the social media stuff to my iPad, I straight up haven’t done that. I haven’t looked at anything for Knowledge Jack social media stuff which has frustrated me but I have good reasoning for doing so. I’ve been busy doing things and work on other life things so I really haven’t had time to do it. There is this concept, that I can’t remember who started it or where I read it, but it basically says that in order to have good engagement on social media or have a following you need to make 10 pieces of media per day. Now honestly that sounds a bit excessive to me but you know I might slowly but surely try to get to that point. Honestly, I know that I myself forget things and will probably forget about things like that so I might just instead try to do something more along the lines of automating some content creation. Of course I’ll put my own spin on it cause I am not about to be a silly and just have a copy and pasted response or post thing. I intend to make some sort of automated system that can make things but make them fairly interesting. I am not entirely sure yet what. I have too many ideas I feel sometimes. It trips me up and slows me down because I am going in ten directions but I’ve learned to live with that. I’ve learned to figure out what I want and need to do first then I go and set my direction to working on that project. I think it is a rather good way of doing things. I love what I do, and I love being able to create on this blog. I also know that the blog requires some money to run, so I think soon I will be electing to make a GoFundMe or a Patreon or both. This isn’t my full time life thing right now, nor do I ever intend it to be. However, I hope for it to be a life long project that builds and grows over time. The reason I might make these things is specifically for the purpose of “keeping the lights on”. And by keeping the lights on I mean paying for the website hosting. For my blog, I do not want to nor intend to have ads on any of my pages. Ad’s would probably help pay for things, however I do not want them in my content. My content is supposed to be nice and wonderful and free for the masses not cluttered with targeted ads. Of course to many of my rules there are exceptions. I wish to produce content on other platforms, such as the likes of YouTube, and for stuff to be uploaded there I will probably take up ads in videos if I get big enough. Notice this is on another platform; not the blog post for things. I would be crazy to not do so. By monetizing the videos and other things I might be able to generate enough revenue that it covers the cost for the blog but I have no way of knowing. By making a Patreon or a GoFundMe, I can have a “sure fire way” of know if the cost of the website will be covered. Hell, if I get enough people to support me in my endeavors I might even be able to expand Knowledge Jack. My goal is to hopefully gain enough of a following that I can continue creating for Knowledge Jack and have it produce enough to keep it up. Now I wouldn’t be sad if Knowledge Jack made enough to pay some of my rent and food or even someone too help run Knowledge Jack, that would be the ultimate goal but it is not the main focus. I am going to foot the bill for the website registration regardless, I’d just like it to be less of a bill. I hope that made sense, I am trying to have a career as well but I want this side project to be independent and self sustaining. God that would be cool. This is the direction I think I want to head with it! I love to think about these things in this “weekly reflection”, it makes me look back and see what I have changed my mind about in a weeks time. I like to have time to make decisions, with time a decision ages and if it lives to be of old age it might just be a good decision to gamble on. I find an immense amount of joy working on these projects and discussing these things with an audience, even though there really isn’t an audience out there right now. It makes me happy, I think that maybe in the future someone will come and read this and smile because they can see where I was in the past and see where I went to. That’s really cool to me. I need to go now, I have more things to write for this blog. I gotta catch up to my goals, more writing needs to be done!

Thank you for reading this far, please go seek out more knowledge on my blog.
-Ben